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Old Yeller (1957)

★ 6.9 · 305 ratings on TMDB

All the heart, all the excitement of a great frontier adventure!

Old Yeller poster★ 6.9

Young Travis Coates is left to take care of the family ranch with his mother and younger brother while his father goes off on a cattle drive in the 1860s. When a yellow mongrel comes for an uninvited stay with the family, Travis reluctantly adopts the dog.

DirectorRobert Stevenson
CastBeverly Washburn, Chuck Connors, Dorothy McGuire, Fess Parker, Jeff York, Kevin Corcoran
GenresAdventure, Drama, Family, Western
The emergence reading

Old Yeller keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same subject, different rung

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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